Picturing Purity

REVOLVE

Curated by Anna Helgeson

Susan Alta Martin: View from Skyland

Sebastian Collett: Untitled

Madison Emond: IceDesert

Susan Lenz: The Spirit Moves

Sarah Knobel: Icescapes2

Paul Stapp: hortusconclusus-3

A photography/new media exhibition designed to engage the public in a nuanced conversation about environmentalism with images that call attention to purity myths in our culture and demonstrate new ways of visualizing our relationship to the planet. From the untouched female virgin, to the uninhabited pristine forest; these myths construct an untouchable other in tension with a lustful outsider.